Andy Field
Professor Of Quantitative Methods
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Field is a Professor of Quantitative Methods at the University of Sussex with a strong academic foundation in psychology (BSc, DPhil) and roughly a decade of focused experience in quantitative teaching and research. Best known as the "Stats book guy," he authored the bestselling Discovering Statistics using SPSS (and an R edition) and the hybrid textbook/graphic-novel An Adventure in Statistics, blending rigorous methods with unconventional, engaging pedagogy. His research on child emotional development complements a prolific educational output that has earned multiple university and British Psychological Society teaching awards plus a National Teaching Fellowship. Based in Brighton, he combines scholarly credibility with showmanship—teaching statistics through narrative and creativity—and balances this with an offbeat hobby performing as a heavy metal drummer.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, 1st, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, 1st at City University (GB)Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.), Psychology at University of Sussex
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Github Skills (70)
outliers10
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statistics10
shiny10
mixed-models10
r-package10
rstudio10
ssreflect9
abaqus9
linear-models9
data-storage9
feature-extraction9
variable-selection9
regression9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
profandyfield/discovr-web
Jul 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
profandyfield/discovr
May 2019 - May 2022
discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 154 commits in 2 years 11 months
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